Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-06-08
OUR TERRITORY.


 OUR TERRITORY.
 chips Fsom Our Territorial Gx-
 Phenix has fresh, ripe figs. Phenix will have big fiesta June 24.
 The Florence Enterprise has "new
 head"
 Decoration Day WAS not observed in
 Yuma.
 Phenix will have bull fight ai it's
 iesta June 24th.
 Geo. Lount, and s. D. Lount, of Phe- nix. have dissolved partnership. c. 5. Gutterson. of Apache county, has gone east to reside. The sanpling works at Kingman paid out $4O,' tO to miners in May. The Tucson skating rink has closed. It Is getting to warm to skate, down there.
 Seventeen Indians are of the reserya- tion. As yet, no depredAtions are re- ported.
 Col. Zabriskie was Memorial Day orator At Tombstone. His oration was . very eloquent one. J. Y. T. Smith, of Phenix, is building larger warehouses, in which to store this years crop oi wheat
 Among the transfers of real estate published in Phenix, we notice two tracts purchased by Governor Zulick.
 Ben. Goodrich has resigned as dis trict attorney of Cochise county, and A. R. English appointed in his place.
 The fellow who advertised himself as the doctor Of hell" has been sent up for 60 days, in Tucson, for robbing a man.
 Will C. Barnes, of Apache county, has been appointed member of the board of live stock sanitary commis- sioners-
 Cyrus B. Tannehill, an old resident and miner at Globe, was killed last Tuesday evening, by falling into min ing shaft.
 John Galland killed Mexican in the Whetstone mountains, last week. He claims self-defense, but a coroner's jury thought different.
 Col J. Clemeshir, of Pima county, charged with branding his neighbors' calves. has skipped" !" leaving bis bonds men in the lurch to the amount of $750 |
 There is no better stock country in the world than Arizona. While the loss Last year in Texas was over D per cent, and in Dakota 70 per cent, in Arizona the loss was under II per cent.
 The postof6ce department has estab- lished . mail route from Holbrook to Payson, via Phenix Park, Wilford and Pleasant Valley. The contract is for once . week service, to commence July lst.
 Charlie Smith, the express messenger who was dynamited out of his car by the train robbers, has been, by Wells, Fargo & Co, presented with an elegant gold watch aud oh ain, suitably inscribed, in recognition of his services on that eventful occasion.
 Col. c. $. Nssten has filed articles of | incorporation for the Ariaons Telegraph Company in the office of the county re corder of Maricope county, and proba- ply the military line between this city and Msricopa will fau into the hands of the new company.
 The new gold district, fifty miles south of the Needles and near the Colo rado river, is attracting much attention. The mines are said to be very rich. San Francisco parties are proving their faith in them by putting up a fifty stamp min.
 On Tuesday last the incorporation of the Antelope Canal Co. was perfected at Yuma, having capital stock of $9O- 0OO. The directors are Ed. Mayes, Bay ard T. Smith, Osce Goodwin, Dr. J. L Robberson and R. D. ChappelL The officers are, president, Ed. Mayes; vice president, BAyard T. Smith; secretary, Dr. J. L. Robberson; treasurer, R. D. Chappen. A civil engineer will be on the ground the first of the week to i, locate the hne of the canal, fix grade, etc., when work will be commenced at once.
 F. N Buck, in letter to the Citizen, says railroad is being projected from the town of Holbrook, in Apache coun- ty, to connect with the sonora road at Benson, and asks for information con corning the possibilities of running the line to Tucson and thence to Nogales. MT. Zuck says one of the principal movers in the enterprise is the Aztec Cattle Company, a corporation owned principally by the Seligmans, in New York. This corporation own some four hundred thousand acres of land in Apache county, and their principal o',- ject in projecting this railway is to make 2 market for their land, by increasing the transportation facilities
 
 Read me for my cause, and be pa- tient that you may read-"-Shakspeare.